American Faust, A Novel

What happens when a dot.com entrepreneur with a revolutionary software is offered a billion dollars from the devil to find a woman of eternal beauty caught in the clutches of her demon lover?American Faust follows the lives of three Americans from different time eras (1920s, 1960s, 2000) whose lives converge when each of them makes a deal with the devil which will have eternal consequences. It's a compelling fast-paced story that delves into the existential angst of pursuing the American Dream -- and the price some are willing to pay to have it all.American Faust is as deep in thinking as Dostoevsky, playful as Pynchon, subversive as Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Nabokov’s Lolita and as bazaar as Bulgakov’s Master & Margarita. American Faust will also appeal to lovers of experimental fiction such as David Foster Wallace. Ideal for book clubs who love a meaty substantive read which will challenge them to think.American Faust will also appeal to lovers of the classics such as Dante’s Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the Faust legends of Marlowe and Goethe. Lovers of early modern literature and banned books will relish the irreverent portrayal of American values. What is so unique about American Faust that will ensure it does not fade? What does it say about the human experience that is so original and extraordinary that readers will devour it for years to come? It is my ambition that readers will feel the pain and suffering which leads to personal growth that the major characters experience -- the worthlessness of Sharon which pushes her to seek eternal beauty, the fear of failure which drives James’ ambition and inability to accept defeat, the abandonment and rejection which drives the antagonist Lawrence to hatred. There comes a moment in the story when all are faced with a choice of redemption. Whether or not they take it, when presented, is the crux of the novel.The famed Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “It is quite true that life must be understood backward, but we must never forget the other principle, that it must be lived forward.” American Faust can deliver such truth and will endure the test of a timeless classic in its own right.